Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Japanese
Academic Year 2026Year School/Graduate School School of Economics Economics Day Course
Lecture Code G6070101 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name ゲーム理論
Subject Name
(Katakana)
ゲームリロン
Subject Name in
English
Game Theory
Instructor MASUZAWA TAKUYA
Instructor
(Katakana)
マスザワ タクヤ
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 3rd-Year,  First Semester,  1Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (1T) Weds5-8:ECON B159
Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
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Face-to-face
 
Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 4 Language of Instruction J : Japanese
Course Level 3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate
Course Area(Area) 24 : Social Sciences
Course Area(Discipline) 03 : Economics
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Class Objectives
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The purpose of this course is to introduce game theory and its economic applications.
In this course, we discuss some topics on perfect information games and strategic games. 
Class Schedule 1. Extensive-form Games
2. Information Sets
3. Games of Perfect Information: Backward Induction
4. Bargaining Games
5. Strategic-form Games
6. Dominance and Iterative Elimination of Strategies
7. Nash Equilibrium and Subgame Perfect Equilibrium
8. Economic Analysis using Strategic-form Games
9. Expected Utility
10. Mixed Strategies and the Minimax Theorem
11. Repeated Games
12. Mathematical Preliminaries
13. Folk Theorem I
14. Folk Theorem II
15. Practice Exercises 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
参考書:
船木由喜彦 「ゲーム理論講義」新世社 2012
武藤滋夫「ゲーム理論」オーム社 2011 
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Students are expected to solve practice exercises. 
Requirements None  
Grading Method Final exam (100%) 
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